Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-09-29

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ability are floating regarding the retirement
al James w. Hyatt from thu Office OF Unit
ed states treasurer.
Acting Secretary Muldrow has requested
the attorney general Ia institute n suit
against Thomas l.. Greenough, principaltie
contractor for the Northern Pacific Rail
road company, Tor the value IF 700 fir,
tamaraek and pine trees, alleged to have
been unlawfully cut from the government
land by the defendant. The acting secre.
tary says the case seems one OF unwillful
trcspass.
Among tho patents issued were tho fol-
lowing; Wisconsin-Anna +. Barbour,
Brodhead. fruit preserver; +. w. Kimball,
4. Appleton. Milwaukee. track boiling ma.
chine; 4. Loeirelholz. Milwaukee. lantern.
II. l.. Nigley. Milwaukee, hame and collar
fastener, j.. Stevens, Neenah, roller mill:
S. Zenssr. Milwaukee, adjustable table.
Minnesota: I'D. Fitz.ibbon, Minneapolis,
shank futnisher for boots and shoes; III.
w. Stone, Jr.. Morris. music ieaf turner,
ID. Strnnk, Minneapolis. combined harvest
CT and binder; T.. l.. Thomas. Minneapolis,
rotary steam engine; d.. Woodbury., Min.
neapoiis. brick machine
Destructive prairie fires are reported
near Brainerd, Aberdeen and Winnipeg.
A 100000 robbery is comm tilted ON a
Texas d Pacific train in Texas.
The Northern Pacific Is reported cor.
tempiatius an SIS, 1000. 900 loan.
The inquest on Henry Woodson, the
"Glaek Diamond who was sh 1t and kill
ell recently, a. Chicago was held and the
verdict recommended that Thomas White
he held to await the further action OF the
grand jury.
Lou Morris died at the Merchant hotel
st. Paul. His remains were taken t. his
home in Boston. Mr.. Morris has earned
quite = reputation as a billiard player
throughout the country, and promised to
become an expert. He vas twenty years
old.
Phineas Chamberlain, a well known Yer
mont lawyer. died almost instantly from
the effects Of a fall or leap from a third
story window at Minneapolis. Some sus-
picious circumstances are called for inves-
tigation.
The British war ship Bellerophon has
arrived at Halifax. n. s, and placed in the
hospital the men injured by the explosion
81 rockets while in Quebec. Governor
General Lansdowne and suite were at the
old French capital. There was a grand
entertainment in Lausdowns's honor on
the flagship Belierephon. As Lord Lans-
downe and party were leaving for the
shore, some six hundred OF the crew we're
on deck. A pile OF sixty or moro Of the
most powerful rockets lay on the upper
deck. One OF them on being lighted, in.
stead OF going up in the air, exploded on
deck, i~gniting the pile of sixty. In a mo-
ment the death.dealing rockets were
sweeping the deck, burning, decorating and
maiming the helpless men. Nearly forty
men were injured, thirteen Of them, inclnd-
ing Midshipman Doutney. seriously.
The Dublin Evening Telegraph Home
eplel states: The government has de-
cidcd to put into force the Suppression
clauses OF the coercion act. This decision
means that over two hundred branches of
the league ARE TO be Immediately prohi-
bited from holding meetings. The Dublin
Gazette publishes a proclamation sup
pressing the league and all OF its branches
in County Clare and the Baronies OF Lei
trim. Loughrca, IN Galway, Corkaguiney,
in Kerry; Condons Clannigbon and Mus.
kerry in Cork and Shclbnrne in Wexford.
The proclamation is signed by Prince Ed
ward OF SAKE. Weimar. commander OF the
forces in ireland; Baron Ashbourne, lord
chancellor Of Ireland; a. J. Balfeur, chief
secretary for Irelaad; Henry Bruen, Justice
general OF Ireland and Gen. Redyers Butler.
The Trafalgar, the largest ironelad ever
constructed, was successfully launched at
Portsmouth. Eng. The Trafalgar is OF
1870 tons and ] 1900 horse power. She
is to carry twelve guns, four OF sixty-seyen
tons and eight OF forty hundred weight.
Her side armor is twenty inches thick.
A son OF NJ. Sehnacbeles, the French
commissary who was arrested at Pagny-
sur Moselle last April. has been arrested
and imprisoned by the German authori-
ties for crossing the frontier near Chemi-
not and anixing a reasonable plaeard
bearing the tricplor of France upun a tree
by tho roadside. Young S~chnaebeles is
sixteen years old.
A voluntary assignment was made in
Chicago by the Mutual Manufacturing om-
pany, makers Of barbed wire, to Elmer
Washburn. The liabilities are sis, 900;
assets about SIC, 600.
Jacob Lorillard's brick works, the larr.
est in the United States. were destroyed by
dre at Keyport, N. j,
NJ. Flourens, minister OF foreign affairs
oil France, has submitted to the budget
committees a statement OF the Tonquin fin
ances. IL shows a deficit of 20, 600. 600
francs. The government has decided that
the construction OF railways in Tonauin
shall not be commented at present, other
pnbiic works being more urgent.
At Mitchelstown, Ireland the coroner re-
sunied his Inquest over the bodies OF those
rtEth uufing the resent confict between
the police and the people. Sergeant Kir-
win, OF the coustabulary. deposed: Shots
were fired IRON the barrack windows sole
ly to defend the policemen. who were then
running TO endeavor to get into the bar
racks to escape the stones which were COM
ing thick and last upon them. When the
police reached the barrack door they could
not get in, the door being blocked. He
then ordered the firing, seeing that his own
life and the lives OF the constabies we're en-
dangered. After two rounds OF buekshot
nae been fired there was one round OF ball
cartridge fred. He was sure that the
shots struck somebody. Timothy Har- |
~rington, secretary OF the Irish National
league, denoLnced the witness as a muir.
derer.
Military and political circles at the city
of Mexico. are greatly excited over the re-
suit of a duel which tool place in one OF
the barracks in that city. The principals
were Gen. Rocha and Antonio Gayon, chief
Of a bureau OF the war department. The
grew over the controversy over the |
question Of the conduct OF Lopez ut Quer-
alto and his relations to the Emperor Max
Some time ago Senor Gayon, who
one of the officers IN the imperial ar
under Macmillan. wrote a letter which
published in the papers, ~aenouncing
as q traitor and asserting that his
was well understood among
the officers in Maximilian's army. Gen.
Rocha replied in the newspaporE i Combat,